“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear.”  – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S., satirist/novelist

Today’s SFZ

IT’S OK TO BE AFRAID –  “Of course, we should never avoid making amends in person only because we are afraid of facing the person we have harmed. We make every effort to find the people we have harmed and make the best amends we can make.” (It Works, How & Why, p. 64)

My Worst Fear – Rascal Flats (4:06)

Attaining a State of Fearlessness – Kriyayoga (5:32)

Freedom from Fear Hypnotic Meditation LP (39:26)

When have you had difficulty mustering up courage, lately?

Courage

by Claude McKay

O lonely heart so timid of approach,
Like the shy tropic flower that shuts its lips
To the faint touch of tender fingertips:
What is your word? What question would you broach?

Your lustrous-warm eyes are too sadly kind
To mask the meaning of your dreamy tale,
Your guarded life too exquisitely frail
Against the daggers of my warring mind.

There is no part of the unyielding earth,
Even bare rocks where the eagles build their nest,
Will give us undisturbed and friendly rest.
No dewfall softens this vast belt of dearth.

But in the socket-chiseled teeth of strife,
That gleam in serried files in all the lands,
We may join hungry, understanding hands,
And drink our share of ardent love and life.